Word: fisherfolk
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Boston's beleaguered fisherfolk looked uneasily toward Canada. Last week the Dominion's shipments of cod fillets to the U.S. ran almost neck-&-neck with those sliced from Boston catches. Week before, Canadians dumped more cod on Boston markets than were landed at the sprawling Fish Pier by the city's own boats. Reason: a three-month-old labor dispute had tied up the big steel trawlers of eleven of Boston's fishing companies, allowed only the smaller draggers to operate...
...spirit that moved Eire to declare her independence moved two of her western isles to assert their own independence of Eire. For 40 years the 200 fisherfolk of Turn and Turbot have maintained an "untaxable republic," refusing to pay taxes to County Galway on the mainland...
Clearest example of the new trend was the size of Georges Bidault's brand-new Mouvement Républicain Populaire in France. Its moderate progressivism attracted both Breton fisherfolk and Parisian shopkeepers. The strong religious base of the M.R.P. was not the prewar political Catholic group, which descended from the Royalist, anti-Dreyfusard reactionaries; the M.R.P. drew its ideology from the liberal social justice encyclicals of Leo XIII and Pius XI. In economics it was left of the U.S. New Deal; but in political outlook it had much in common with Thomas Jefferson...
...buses are being discontinued. After a generation of disuse, sailing-boat transports sail again. Dublin streets swarm with hundreds of awkward, new bicycle riders, and Dubliners who own autos have hitched horses to them. Paraffin is so scarce that Donegal peasants now use rushlights, make candles from mutton fat. Fisherfolk in the western islands are catching shark for oil to light homemade lamps. This spring the wheat shortage threatened a bread famine by midsummer, but a 7,000-ton shipment from Canada brought some relief. Worse still, there's devilish little tea-and all for a war the Government...
Marie-Lelia's father, Henri L. Baels, was an ambitious man. His father, though one of the fisherfolk, had managed to send Henri to a good school. Henri had become a lawyer and blossomed into better society. He joined the Flemish Catholic Party, was elected deputy of Ostend, later became Minister of Agriculture. In 1930, the year young Marie-Lelia was in Rome, he lost his ministerial job. He soon wangled an appointment as Governor of West Flanders Province and moved to Bruges, dreamy capital of West Flanders, Marie-Lelia then went home to enjoy a new life...